User talk:Gabecrawford

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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Gabecrawford. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 13:05, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

July 2024
Hello Gabecrawford. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Gabecrawford. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. MrOllie (talk) 15:54, 2 July 2024 (UTC)


 * I do not have a financial stake with Sherie Rene Scott. Gabecrawford (talk) 15:59, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * That's not the full question. Are you associated with Scott or with Santino Fontana in any fashion? Whether you are or not, you must stop editing Wikipedia in a promotional way, that is not the purpose of this site. MrOllie (talk) 16:00, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my efforts with either Santino or Sherie. I was making some factual updates. There's been a new book with info on Scott. Gabecrawford (talk) 16:02, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * You keep splitting hairs and not answering the actual question - I'll take that as a 'yes'. MrOllie (talk) 16:04, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Can you please restate then? I am confused. I answered this question:
 * 'you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message' Gabecrawford (talk) 16:06, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Are you associated with Scott or with Santino Fontana in any fashion? MrOllie (talk) 16:07, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * No. Gabecrawford (talk) 16:07, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * If you are not associated with Santino Fontana in any fashion, why do you own the copyright to their professional headshot, as you wrote that you did here? MrOllie (talk) 16:13, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I thought I had to to use it. I don't own the copyright. I'm new to Wikipedia. Gabecrawford (talk) 16:14, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I apologize. I understand how to cite photos properly now. Gabecrawford (talk) 16:14, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

File:Santino Fontana.jpeg listed for discussion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Santino Fontana.jpeg, has been listed at Files for discussion. Please see the to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 16:16, 2 July 2024 (UTC)